Room for Rent
...I heard
tiny terrors
stitched in between light walls
as weightless as chicken feathers
jaundiced piss, recycled adult nappies
crumpled faces leaking maggots
that ripen to dust here
the...
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Categories:
nappies, abuse, age, dark, death,
Form: Rictameter
Choice
...If you're looking for change,
don’t wait for kindness to reward you,
or for broken systems to apologize.
Look in the mirror,
Ask yourself
if today was built on truth.
The kids we tried t...
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Categories:
nappies, childhood, environment,
Form: Narrative
Cheeky baby swagger
...Coocoo doodle I do,
Not every day I coo,
What Mum can do, I can –
My skin needs a sun tan.
My hair with homemade curls,
My makeup shines like pearls.
I'm just a baby, see,
Acting adu...
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Categories:
nappies, child, childhood, children, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Social Media
...Constantly seeking out validation,
You don’t have to know me,
But I wanna be your favourite.
I want you to like me so much, I hate it.
Share posts or tap to follow,
Get blocked and deleted, such...
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Categories:
nappies, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Backspace
...I already understand that children
grow inside two blinks,
as quickly as the novel Mayfly
comes to the surface to die.
I'm pining for those first days again,
of edentate smiles, milestones...
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Categories:
nappies, absence, children, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
Valkyrians
...Valkyrians
We live in a time when high education
among the middle and higher middle class
get work in a notable occupation
many are women who find a profession
often within the state appara...
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Categories:
nappies, analogy, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
termination
...The Termination
Hallo Ann, let me tell you about your mother,
she was younger than I and a dancer
She got a job dancing at a club in Madrid
alas, she was pregnant, that would not do
a doctor,...
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Categories:
nappies, angel, betrayal, birth,
Form: Blank verse
Old Dogs, New Tricks
...It's hard to beat the old age inventions
When our bodies refuse to meet our intentions,
Those top shelf items you simply can't reach,
The ones at the bottom inaccessibly deep!
I can't squeeze t...
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Categories:
nappies, age, fun,
Form: Rhyme
My Darling Baby
...I love you little one
more than mummy can say
so why my baby child
do you often make me pay?
You're so pure and tiny
yet so loud and smelly too
all these years i never knew
all the different...
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Categories:
nappies, baby, funny, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Evenings In Springtime : Nov 2021
...Babies cry, sleep, change nappies, feed. Toddlers drink water from cups. Younger brothers, younger sister, older brother, older sister, small town, large country.
One lane roads, one lane bridges, u...
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Categories:
nappies, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
The Curious Case of Christopher Peewee Flaherty
...The curious case
Of
Christopher Flaherty
Who began and started out in life with
a perfectly normal human sized brain
Born with a wise old head on his
shoulder's old before his time
That...
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Categories:
nappies, slam,
Form: Free verse
Junk
...the stern of the junk
stuck out like the tip of an iceberg
surrounded by plastic bottles
filled baby’s nappies
flip flops and crocs
we can walk on water
whatever floats our boat...
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Categories:
nappies, farewell,
Form: Free verse
The Beach
...Sand cool and gritty underfoot,
Pebbles here and there,
The odd shell peeking out,
The beach can be a wonderful place,
It its treated right.
Buried in the sand are hidden dangers,
Broken glas...
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Categories:
nappies, beach, judgement, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Virtue
...… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the foundations of a Uni...
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Categories:
nappies, character,
Form: Free verse
Money Can't Buy Happiness
...Money can't buy happiness
for me happiness
Such an elusive emotion
I'm not sad or depressed
But can not say I'm extremely
happy either
When my son was still in nappies
I took him out to th...
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Categories:
nappies, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
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